Posted on 11/25/2018 12:11:29 PM PST by Olog-hai
Since it’s clear that Daniel Craig (the sixth actor to officially play Bond since 1962) has one foot out the door of the Aston-Martin, the conversation about diversifying 007 has been happening in earnest. Is one of Hollywood’s oldest properties ready for a reboot?
A new survey, conducted by Morning Consult and the Hollywood Reporter, asked 2,201 U.S. adults how they would feel about the fictional spy shifting demographics: from British to American, from male to female, from straight to gay, or from Caucasian to another ethnicity. The results show that a narrow majority support a black James Bond and most approve of a U.S.-born Bond — but the idea of a female, Hispanic, Asian or gay Bond is still hard for most Americans to wrap their heads around.
According to the data, 49 percent of American adults support the idea of a black actor playing Bond. When asked specifically if fan favorite (and 2018’s Sexiest Man Alive) Idris Elba should play the character, 36 percent of men and 43 percent of women surveyed said, “Yes, please!”
But what about making the character a different ethnicity? Perhaps without someone as obvious as Elba in mind, the participants were more tepid about a Hispanic Bond (19 percent of adults strongly support this casting) or an Asian Bond (17 percent of adults strongly support the change).
There has also been a lot of discussion in film circles about the possibility of a female Bond. Franchise producer Barbara Broccoli recently said she’s against it, and survey participants seem to agree. …
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Always identity politics with these sickos.
I’m waiting for a reboot of Roots with a white Kunte Kinte.
The new Magnum PI is a hispanic and it turns out the actor playing him, as a witting Freeper pointed out, GAY.
YUCK.
Or the Malcom X biopic starring Bradley Cooper.
They have gotten so far away from Ian Fleming’s idea of Bond and all the other characters that it probably doesn’t matter anymore. I no longer watch them at all.
Already been done.
Ever watch Black Dynamite (2009).
Saves the neighborhood, not the world.
It’s on Netflix.
A gay James Bond is next.
I’m sure that will be a big seller of tickets. /yack
I have no problem with Idris being g bond. I aways wanted Clive Owen. Theres a bunch of australian actors now who might fill the bill. Get with it folks. Maybe he’s the son of Bond and an Island woman.
Make him blond too.
How he’d survive attempts on his life for being a “wizard”, I cannot fathom.
A black, American 007, is not James Bond. If they want to do that, just retire the series and make a new one. One that I don’t need to watch.
A perfect example of some of the useless kinds of Fake News.
The movies are too formulaic. I could outline 2or 3 bond movies that could be developed into the Broccoli formula. That is the problem, not a black actor. need a fresh ;look at Bond and a different type of movie. But the brocollis have everything but Thunderball locked up.
One gender to rule them all, one gender to find them, one gender to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
I don’t.
No wait - tell ya what - I’ll support having James Bond played as a black man so long as the character is written as a black AMERICAN.
Oh I’m sorry - is that insensitive?
Why?
you do know Bond is fictional character?
I wonder why they didn’t test a muslim James Bond?
When is King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table going to be black or female?
Lol!
When will we be seeing a black transsexual Scarlet O’Hara?
Bond, Jane Bond. My uncle was killed along with his wife on a skiing trip and I want a 00 number to revenge him.
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